42-31934 Marie Helena

media-21608.jpeg UPL 21608

452nd Bomb Group Assoc.

Object Number - UPL 21608

Delivered Cheyenne 6/1/44; Gr Island 15/1/44;

Assigned: 4 February 1944 - 731BS / 452BG - (RAF Deopham Green)

( Square-L ) ( Q / Marie Helena )

Damaged over Rouen 8/7/44;

with Bob Smith (Wounded in Action), Bombardier: John Morales (Wounded in Action), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wilfrid Munningham (Wounded in Action), Radio Operator: John Kayes (Wounded in Action), Ball turret gunner: Jack Lodwig, Waist gunner: Everett O’Malley, Waist gunner: Don Tucker, Tail gunner: Bill Lorig (8 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Joe Beauregard, Navigator: John Thomsen (2 Killed in Action); Two engines out and radio, force landed on US fighter strip in France; was eventually repaired and back to UK base;



Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 25/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/11/45.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 452nd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12208374
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Top turret gunner/ flight engineer
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 729th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18209594
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner / Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15101630
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 730th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37704470
  • Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radar Operator / Radar Jammer

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Force landed

France 8 July 1944

Revisions

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ContributorKeith Munningham
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Newspaper clippings, verbal description by my father W H Munningham

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Facebook post by Munningham's son

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aaf records

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452nd Bomb Group Assoc.

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Added associations from caption.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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